Crisis de la transmisión y declive de la institución

Abstract

The crisis of school systems in not a simple effect of the social crisis on education. It is the result of a profound change in the forms of institutional transmission. Derived from a form of religious transmission, herein called institutional program, the school institution constructed a symbolic economy defining the school functions, the legitimacy of authority and the teaching methods and relations. School massification, the emergence of a more autonomous subject and the power of school on individual destinies have induced a crisis of the institutional program. Hence, institutions tend to become more political than moral, and personal experience substitutes itself to the traditional model of education.